PHD: Personalized 3D Human Body Fitting with Point Diffusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21257v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:03:35 GMT
• Title: PHD: Personalized 3D Human Body Fitting with Point Diffusion
• Authors: Hsuan-I Ho, Chen Guo, Po-Chen Wu, Ivan Shugurov, Chengcheng Tang, Abhay Mittal, Sizhe An, Manuel Kaufmann, Linguang Zhang,
• Abstract summary: PHD is a novel approach for personalized 3D human mesh recovery (HMR) and body fitting.<n>It leverages user-specific shape information to improve pose estimation accuracy from videos.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We introduce PHD, a novel approach for personalized 3D human mesh recovery (HMR) and body fitting that leverages user-specific shape information to improve pose estimation accuracy from videos. Traditional HMR methods are designed to be user-agnostic and optimized for generalization. While these methods often refine poses using constraints derived from the 2D image to improve alignment, this process compromises 3D accuracy by failing to jointly account for person-specific body shapes and the plausibility of 3D poses. In contrast, our pipeline decouples this process by first calibrating the user's body shape and then employing a personalized pose fitting process conditioned on that shape. To achieve this, we develop a body shape-conditioned 3D pose prior, implemented as a Point Diffusion Transformer, which iteratively guides the pose fitting via a Point Distillation Sampling loss. This learned 3D pose prior effectively mitigates errors arising from an over-reliance on 2D constraints. Consequently, our approach improves not only pelvis-aligned pose accuracy but also absolute pose accuracy -- an important metric often overlooked by prior work. Furthermore, our method is highly data-efficient, requiring only synthetic data for training, and serves as a versatile plug-and-play module that can be seamlessly integrated with existing 3D pose estimators to enhance their performance. Project page: https://phd-pose.github.io/

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